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Market evidence report — financial-analyst
Source: 40 real job ads (JSearch API, countries: us 40), extracted into the MSSQL evidence store; as of 2026-07-11. This report contains extracted, aggregated facts only — no ad text is reproduced (copyright / platform terms).
Seniority distribution
| Seniority | Ads | Share |
|---|---|---|
| mid | 21 | 52 % |
| senior | 12 | 30 % |
| junior | 5 | 12 % |
| lead | 2 | 5 % |
Tools — full market ranking
| # | Item | Ads | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Microsoft Excel | 24 | 60 % |
| 2 | Microsoft PowerPoint | 10 | 25 % |
| 3 | Microsoft Word | 8 | 20 % |
| 4 | Tableau | 6 | 15 % |
| 5 | Microsoft Outlook | 5 | 12 % |
| 6 | SAP | 5 | 12 % |
| 7 | SQL | 5 | 12 % |
| 8 | Navy ERP | 4 | 10 % |
| 9 | Oracle | 4 | 10 % |
| 10 | Power BI | 4 | 10 % |
| 11 | Microsoft Access | 3 | 8 % |
| 12 | Python | 3 | 8 % |
Hard skills — full market ranking
| # | Item | Ads | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | financial analysis | 20 | 50 % |
| 2 | forecasting | 15 | 38 % |
| 3 | data analysis | 12 | 30 % |
| 4 | budgeting | 11 | 28 % |
| 5 | financial modeling | 11 | 28 % |
| 6 | financial reporting | 9 | 22 % |
| 7 | variance analysis | 8 | 20 % |
| 8 | strategic planning | 4 | 10 % |
| 9 | budget development | 3 | 8 % |
| 10 | economic analysis | 3 | 8 % |
| 11 | financial planning | 3 | 8 % |
| 12 | program evaluation | 3 | 8 % |
| 13 | quantitative analysis | 3 | 8 % |
| 14 | risk assessment | 3 | 8 % |
Methods — full market ranking
| # | Item | Ads | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Planning, Programming, Budgeting, and Execution (PPBE) | 3 | 8 % |
Responsibilities — full market ranking
| # | Item | Ads | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | financial data analysis | 4 | 10 % |
| 2 | financial reporting | 3 | 8 % |
| 3 | presentation development | 3 | 8 % |
| 4 | report preparation | 3 | 8 % |
Regional breakdown
Corpus note: 40 relevant ads in total — below the 100-ad target for a fully reliable ranking. Percentages above should be read as indicative.
US (us)
40 ads.
Top hard skills:
- financial analysis — 50 % (20 ads)
- forecasting — 38 % (15 ads)
- data analysis — 30 % (12 ads)
- budgeting — 28 % (11 ads)
- financial modeling — 28 % (11 ads)
- financial reporting — 22 % (9 ads)
- variance analysis — 20 % (8 ads)
- strategic planning — 10 % (4 ads)
- budget development — 8 % (3 ads)
- economic analysis — 8 % (3 ads)
Top tools:
- Microsoft Excel — 60 % (24 ads)
- Microsoft PowerPoint — 25 % (10 ads)
- Microsoft Word — 20 % (8 ads)
- Tableau — 15 % (6 ads)
- Microsoft Outlook — 12 % (5 ads)
- SAP — 12 % (5 ads)
- SQL — 12 % (5 ads)
- Navy ERP — 10 % (4 ads)
- Oracle — 10 % (4 ads)
- Power BI — 10 % (4 ads)
Seniority: mid 52 % · senior 30 % · junior 12 % · lead 5 %
UK (gb)
Insufficient evidence — 0 ads (minimum for a regional ranking: 30). No ranking is reported for this region.
EU/DACH (de, at, ch, nl)
Insufficient evidence — 0 ads (minimum for a regional ranking: 30). No ranking is reported for this region.
Job title variants in the market
| Title | Ads |
|---|---|
| Financial Analyst | 2 |
| Senior Financial Analyst | 2 |
| Sr Financial Analyst | 2 |
| Airline/Aviation Economic & Financial Analyst | 1 |
| Analyst, Financial | 1 |
| Cleared - Financial Analyst Jobs | 1 |
| Consultant, Controllership - Financial Analyst/Audit Remediation | 1 |
| Economic Analyst in Finance | 1 |
| Finance Analyst - MEC Transportation | 1 |
| Financial Analyst - Navy ERP | 1 |
| Financial Analyst - Navy ERP with Security Clearance | 1 |
| Financial Analyst (Secret 26-047) with Security Clearance | 1 |
| Financial Analyst (Secret Clearance Required) | 1 |
| Financial Analyst II, NACF | 1 |
| Financial Analyst III | 1 |
| Financial Analyst Jobs | 1 |
| Financial Analyst with USSOCOM experience (secret clearance needed) | 1 |
| Financial Analyst, FP&A | 1 |
| FP&A Analyst | 1 |
| Intermediate Financial Analyst | 1 |
| Junior Financial Analyst (TS/SCI Required) | 1 |
| Lead Analyst Defense Cost & Economic Analysis | 1 |
| Mid-Level Financial Analyst | 1 |
| PART-TIME Junior Economic Analyst (REMOTE ROLE) | 1 |
| Principal Financial Analyst | 1 |
Methodology: entities extracted per ad ({hard_skills, tools, methods, responsibilities, seniority}), normalized, counted as DISTINCT ads per entity; report threshold ≥ 3 ads. Headline sections in skills.md/tools.md use the stricter ≥ 20 % threshold.